Sir John Bernard Bosanquet

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2nd May 1773 - 25th Sep 1847

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Biography

Son of Samuel Bosanquet (1744-1806) and Eleanor Hunter (1745-1819), Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

There is ambiguity about the nature of the awards made to James William Freshfield and Charles Bosanquet as trustees for Sir John Bernard Bosanquet: Sir John Bernard Bosanquet in turn is described as trustee for 4 City financiers who each lent £5000 to Manning & Anderdon secured on estates in St Kitts, but was not apparently a creditor himself.

Serjeant at Law 1814, King's Serjeant 1827; Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal 1825-6; presided over the Commission to Inquire into the Practices of the Common Law Courts 1828-30; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1830; knighted 1830; P.C. 1833.

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People of Interest

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.